Rafizi Ramli insisted that he has a report that 5,000 acres of land in Gemas were given free to National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) for the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) project. Malaysian Insider and MalaysiaKIni reported MP Khairy Jamaluddin had debunked this with Rafizi Ramli on 11 November 2011. But no, Rafizi went on rattling this line. On 24 May 2012, Rafizi was quoted to have said to The Sun Daily, "Then you find that the government gave RM250 million and 5,000 acres of land – not to thousands of farmers – but to one minister's husband."

Here is an extract from the Lease Agreement signed on 5 March 2010 between NFCorp and the Menteri Besar Negeri Sembilan representing the state government for the NFC project. It states clearly that the land leased is 1,500 acres (see pic).

The land was also never given free as claimed by Rafizi. A rental is paid to the State Government of Negeri Sembilan represented by the lessor - Menteri Besar Negeri Sembilan for the use of the land (see pic).

There was also never any truth in Rafizi's claim that 3,500 acres of land were withdrawn by the Negeri Sembilan state government because NFCorp had failed to meet production targets. There was also no timber to have been extracted from this land area as claimed by Rafizi. The State Government had cleared the land of its Arcacia trees (also known as thorntrees) for Napier grass cultivation as fodder before it was leased to NFCorp in 2007. Again, these are vile lies on Rafizi's part to slander NFCorp in bad light and to rile the public. Rafizi's recent tweet below is evidence of his continued malicious lies (see tweet).

The production numbers are clearly defined. Again, we reproduce them for readers to adjudicate (see pic).

You can see that in the initial start up, the production number for NFC Gemas is 8,000 heads of cattle. Production was also to begin in 2010, the year the Implementation Agreement was signed, not 2009 as claimed by Rafizi. This is to progressively grow over the years to reach 60,000 heads of cattle by 2013. And if the contract farmers are to participate under the Entrepreneur Development Programme (EDP) when the Export Quality Abattoir is built, production numbers would be a cumulative 246,000 heads of cattle by 2014 – not 330,000 heads of cattle by 2009 as declared by Rafizi. The year 2009 is not in the Implementation Agreement. Rafizi just lied through his teeth.

Rafizi is under the delusion that he had the hard facts, that he could count, but really, the truth of the matter is Rafizi can't count for a trained accountant nor could he be counted to tell the truth. Rafizi's claims were not founded on the actual agreed numbers. Instead, the lies, distortions and misrepresentations that he presented, have been nothing but a smear campaign to run down a government national project and a company working towards a national food security goal. Rafizi was never for the real picture of NFC or the truth for Malaysians (see tweet).

Malaysians can see how inaccurate, imprecise and erroneous Rafizi is with his claims. Or did he really know the truth but manipulated the facts to create public outrage?

Rafizi insists that 330,000 heads of cattle was the production number for the NFC project. Rafizi also insists that this target must be achieved in 2009. Rafizi also believes in a lot of other things. All these beliefs are as he claims, based on his premise of a paper that he has from the Department of Veterinary Science (DVS).

Rafizi told the Malaysian Insider ("PKR disputes government claim, says cattle project is a failure", 1 November 2011), the ministry had aimed to produce 50,000 tonnes of beef annually by 2009, which will hit 40 per cent of the country's demand.

"So the 50,000-tonne target means there must be at least 330,000 cattle slaughtered a year," Rafizi said.

"Yet, the minister declared the project a success. He clearly failed to refer to these details. We are not cows, we can count," Rafizi told a news conference in Parliament.

Rafizi fails to realize that what he has in his hands is nothing but an outdated concept paper mooted for a beef valley project. Nowhere in this concept paper was there any mention of 330,000 heads of cattle as a production target claimed by Rafizi. And even then, the production target for the Integrator of the NFC Project is 60,000 heads of cattle.

So Rafizi's rant that 330,000 heads of cattle was the production target for NFCorp, was nothing but a big wild lie on his part to stir the minds of the ordinary man. If one examines the concept paper, one will find that it is preliminary idea designed for an entire beef valley project mooted for the National Meat Policy (Ruminant Sector) 2006. Let's take a look at the DVS concept graphic for the truth –

In this concept graphic, the cumulative annual production target is 276,000 heads of cattle (60,000 from the Feedlot Integrator + 30,000 from three commercial farmers + 186,000 from 310 satellite contract farmers). Does this add to 330,000, one would need to ask trained accountant Rafizi?

And if you examine this graphic, one will find that NFCorp is not even mentioned in the equation. This underscores how preliminary this concept paper was. We can only assume that NFCorp takes the role of Integrator of Feedlot, Lamberts Agricultural Trade (M) Sdn Bhd is one of the commercial farmers, and the 310 others are the contract farmers who would be called in once the Export Quality Abattoir is built by the Government.

In reality, what was finally agreed in the Implementation Agreement signed between National Feedlot Corporation and the Government of Malaysia in March 2010, is entirely different from the preliminary concept paper